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Questions on the Quad – Edition 3

Written by Nadia Watkins, Reporter • November 3, 2022

How and Why Students Get Fake IDs

Written by Emma Fischer, News Editor • March 28, 2022

Editor's Note: This article has two anonymously interviewed students because admitting they have fake IDs and explaining the process they went through to get them can be incriminating. The Muleskinner...

Crossing the Line

Written by Robert Newman • February 8, 2022

The college experience has become a rite of passage for many American teens. From a young age, they’re conditioned to expect to attend college, and they expect it to be a party. It’s as American...

A Year Ago Today: Freshmen Reflect on Changes

Written by Emily Dickmeier, Reporter • April 26, 2021

Competitions, special events and ceremonies were all postponed throughout the pandemic, which started in March 2020. Many high school seniors lost their opportunity to make lasting memories, but...

Ebola in mind, US colleges screen some students

Written by Muleskinner Staff • August 29, 2014

By CAROLYN THOMPSON (BUFFALO, N.Y. AP) — College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try to insulate campuses...

More Mo. students to get aid applying for college

Written by Muleskinner Staff • February 10, 2014

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — More Missouri students could get personal help with filing out college applications this fall. The Coordinating Board for Higher Education has announced an expansion of "College...

College presidents find smaller can be better

Written by Muleskinner Staff • November 4, 2013

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — After five scandal-plagued years as University of North Carolina chancellor, Holden Thorp was downright ecstatic to start over on a campus where the term "student-athlete"...

Gov. Nixon proposes more higher education funding

Written by Muleskinner Staff • October 22, 2013

By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Monday he will propose a significant funding boost next year for colleges and universities and new resources for financial aid...

Innovative NY program picks up college tuition

Written by Muleskinner Staff • August 22, 2013

By CAROLYN THOMPSON (BUFFALO, N.Y., AP) — When 18-year-old Cheyenne Ketter-Franklin begins classes at the University at Buffalo next week, she will be spared at least one anxiety — the prospect of...